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Word: jersey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just hit 'em and they go ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!" For the last five years barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, a New Jersey saloonkeeper, has made this boast to anyone within earshot. And for five years everyone within earshot has smiled at the pasty, pudgy little prattler and his self-appraised ability to knock out the best prizefighter in the world. He looked as unfit for the prize ring as a dachshund for a greyhound race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Jersey's Senator Smathers, Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, Delaware's Senator Hughes announced they are Third-Termites. Indiana's Senator Van Nuys announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Seeds of 1940 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Long before the Civil War there was horse racing in New Jersey. In the 1880s Jersey's Monmouth Park, with its imported British bookmaking system as well as new-fangled pari-mutuel betting machines, was the rendezvous for New York's fashionable "400." But the citizens of New Jersey in 1897 decided that gambling was a menace, outlawed it, killed racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week a new generation of Jersey voters, following in the footsteps of 21 other U. S. States which have recently grasped at gambling as a source of revenue, decided to revive horse racing, voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting in their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago. 4. Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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